Nina nods, a determined set to her jaw and her eyes locked on his, at the thought of some kind of secret cache that the two of them can use for this. "I am serious," she says simply, knowing that their understanding of each other -- even after not having physically seen one another for six years -- means that James will likely start moving forward on whatever he'll need to set that up for them.
She doesn't elucidate further on her feelings on the subject, or ask questions about what he has in mind. She listens instead, the two of them falling back into the roles they played back then: James giving his side of the story, retelling it all as best as he can, while she takes it all in and tries to put together the bigger picture from his details. Nina doesn't speak up again until it's clear that James has paused his retelling, waiting for her input.
"The scouts trade the resources back to the Capitol, even if they're living in other shelters," she says evenly, connecting the dots, so to speak, out loud. "Even here, they still trade for water. The Capitol still gets a portion of what they find. They take more from the UMCB, of course, considering the relationship." She frowns. "It's a smart move. Control the flow of resources -- life-sustaining ones, especially -- and you control the people." She's in agreement with him on that; it's practically textbook. Dictatorship 101.
Still, though, she has to question him on one point: "If the soldiers don't know what, exactly, they're fighting for, does that still make it okay? I lived and worked in the Capitol myself for two whole years before I started to realize just what was going on, and only because Demi Rafferty's case punched a hole in the façade they're hanging over our faces and made me see the truth." Nina's sure she'll always live with the guilt of knowing how complicit she was as a part of Olinger's system, just like she believes the deaths of her co-workers will always weigh on her shoulders. "If you hadn't known that I worked at the Department of Justice, if all of that hadn't happened, there's a chance my name would've been on that death toll."